THE
PA.
Pretty Marion Capes of Brooklyn
geting as first mate, crew and bal-
inst, us Skipper George P. Douglas
swings his speeding lce-yacht around
the stake at Lake Hopatcong, N. J.
Split. Season Plan in
the National League
A fact of which few baseball
fans are aware Is that the Na-
tional league once adopted the
split season plan, which in recent
years has become popular with
some of the little organizations,
It was back in 1892 that the
parent league divided its season
into two parts. Cleveland won
the first half and Boston the sec-
ond. Boston was awarded the
pennant for having won the
greater number of games for the
whole season.
Stuffy McInnis Is Big
Stuffy MclIrnis of the immortal Ath-
letie Infleld of 1011-14, shines
about as brightly as ever after 15 sea-
sons of weir and tear.
for the Boston Braves In 1023,
rotund first sacker led the league bats-
men in sacrifice most
line of endeavor, yet
sains few cheers,
florg
stil
toll,
hits—a
and one
yp A
Stuffy stands the strain well, for he
missed only one game last year,
with
lead
an average of 315
gue fielding, had
so often In his glarious past, but
he came w
an av
Stuffy
total chiances,
Holke of
record,
the le: as he
done
ithin two points of
of 001
erage
and shared with Walter
Phillies the
engaged In
the
They
plays each.
double-play
sms
“Dazzy” Shovels Snow
“Dazzy” Vance xept his pitching
arm warmed up on a cold day by shov-
eling snow in front of his cigar store
in Omaha, Neb.) where the star
twirler of the Brooklyn Dodgers—lead-
er of the National league in strikeouts
Inst season—is enjoying a highly profit
able business,
English Are Lacking in
Snappy “Baseball Arms”
While recently discussing his vaca-
tion in Europe, John McGraw, mana-
ger of the Giants, sald; “I am con-
vinced that the English will never be
great baseball players—not for a great
timey at any rate. They lack the great
essential of the proper throwing arm.
By that 1 mean, when they throw
they do not use the snappy movement
employed by Americans in baseball,
They use the throw mused in cricket,
The schoolboys form the nucleus of
our baseball. If they take up base
ball on a large scale in the English
schools some day they may develop a
team to give us an argument, But that
day is very, very far off.”
Three Men Swim Channel
Another “impossibility” has dropped
to the level of the commonplace
swimming the English channel. Three
turned the trick last year, and it Is
predicted more will do it next summer,
The 1023 trio were Henry Sullivan
and Charles Toth, Americans, and En-
rlane Tiraboad, a South American,
port Notes
The even stride of a race horse go
ing at full speed is 24 feet.
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Only 12 players who were In the
gnajors 12 years ago are still there.
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The best way to prevent another
war In Europe lies in inoculating the
politicians with the golf bug.
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Despite all the natural Influences
involved, horseshoe pitching Is
i sport we can't get a kick out of.
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one
While it Is true you cannot get
{| your feet wet playing indoor golf, as
| much cannot be sald of the nose,
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Dundee says it would be foolish of
him to think retiring.
It would be foolish of any fighter to
i think.
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of
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Once again the
Stanisiaus Zbyszko
he will retire
game,
world Is saved
has denied that
from the wrestling
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Interest In the
| never will be at
kethall
events,
-
Olympian games
fever heat until bas
made one of the
is major
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President Ban Johnson of the Amer
fean league announced that there will
be no change in baseballs used in the
league.
of southpaws on his Washington club
The veteran George Mogridge is the
only dependable.
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Preston
| signed
has been
Rock Island
Valley league
Gray, pitcher,
to manage the
{ team in the Mississippi
the
coming season,
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Joe Beckett has opened a
school In London and will teach
the and outs of fighting
Particularly the outs
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club of
his
DUDS
pup Ins
The the Pacific
Coast announces the signing
of whran, captain of the
Joston university baseball team.
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Portland
league
Gordon
President Doe Seabonugh of the West.
ern association anhounces the
of two umpires—Mike Jacobs
and Jack Wilkerson, both veterans,
"8 =
nore
Considering the uniform they wear,
it is difficult to understand the dtate-
ment that of the basketball
teams have something up thelr sleeve,
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some
Eddie Collins says that Shortstop
McClellan should be much more valu-
able to the White Sox this year. Me
Clellan, after long service on the
bench, finally graduated to the ranks
of a regular last summer. He is only
a fair hitter,
Star Female Athlete
Roberts Ranck, well-known twen-
ty-one-year-old female athletic star of
the Philadelphia (Pa.} Turngemelnde,
She is the national decathlon cham.
pion and Is nlso a Javelin and discus
thrower of champlonship proportions,
She is second highest in the shot put
and a member of the celebrated Turn:
gemeinde play team,
Jack Kearns Thought
Rocca Was Too Rough
Whén Dempsey was training
for the fight at Shelby, If you
remember, an Itallun heavy-
welght named Rocea Stramaglia
hit him one day and created
quite a sensation,
“1 dropped Into Dempsey’s
camp one day,” Stramaglia re-
lated, “and Kearns asked me to
put on the gloves, There was no
agreement made with Dempsey
except we both understood as I
supposed that we were to box
easy, -
“The first thing I knew,
though, Dempsey hit me an aw-
ful sock, and that made me mad,
80 I gave him a sock back and
cut his eye,
“Then Kearns became very
excited, ordered me out of the
ring, and called me all kinds of
names.”
RARE MOUND FEAT IS
Mates on Bench.
One of the greatest exhibitions
pitching was given by Mordecal Brown
of the Nationals when on a
spring trip In the South. The club had
finished its training and
Chicago
small towns,
Brownie had _ gotten into
He Was then at the top of his glory
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Mordezali Brown,
innings
ing to
season
fourth day
out
every or so, not wish
wear him before the
started.
In Maordecal
of
this particular clash
had Pelieved a mate at the
the fifth. He simply breezed through
the innings, putting the ball just
wanted it. His curve broke
like a million dollars. His smoke was
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terrific
start
where he
Came the’ ninth inning. The spec
etd Chance to bench all the
but and the catcher
They had read Rube Waddell
had worked a final round with nohody
with him but the catcher and first
sacker, and wanted to see
Brownie could do
frown
where
the
him, And the records show that Mor
deen
ters Jn
novelty of
struck out the three hostile hat
two, three order.
one,
Esthonia,
lussia, has started’ to indulge In
of billiards,
Tartu, but when an old
found and put Into condition for play
it was
been lost and none were available,
The players then sought for sub
stitutes and the great American sport,
baseball, came to the rescue. Several
matches were played with three basge-
balls on the table and the players sald
that they experienced a thrill in play-
ing their games,
A large gymnasium was opened just
recently and the attendance at the
first class reached the B00 mark.
Since that time there have been ad
ditions until the classes have been di-
vided and the instructors are kept
busy from morning until night.
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Yale Will Promote Golf
With New 18-Hole Course
Yale will soon have an eighteen
hole golf course, comparable to any
of the country’s high-class layouts
Work on the new links will be started
In the spring and the ancient sport
will be encouraged more than ever.
Yale men bave made notable records
In the major golf championships.
Bob Gardner has twice won the na.
tional championship, and Jess Sweet.
ser won the event a year ago and
finished runnerup in the 1928 tourna:
ment, ‘
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National Had 257 Players
The National league was represented
by 2567 players during the 1028 season
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WHY MARC
HOUGH
tease, at
March is a blusterisi |
times he can be as nice
mannered and sweet as his sisters, |
April and May. |
une year April opened her eyes and |
Jumped out of bed. She thought she |
“Come ott!
jut the next words |
for!
are
the |
“We can fool
while, March,
the
You
folks
you
earth
know
It was old February trying to entice
Ing longer: and April knew that she!
the tempter.
March dearly loves a frolic. He
blow and bluster and scare
folks with his roar, sending hats and
umbrellag scattering and flying about,
he put on his heavy
cont, Intending to
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be ready |
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March Liked to Blow and Bluster,
February's coldest breath. Poor
April began to weep—she knew |
unless done at
little
something was
time to stay, $0 ghe whispefed to her!
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sleeping sister:
“May, May.” she softly called, "w ake |
brother March to go out on a!
frolle and you know he will forget to |
May woke up with a sweet smile,
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A LINE O' CHEER
By John Kendrick Bangs.
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TITTY TT TTTTTTTYT™™Y
GREETING ¥
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I wake oo mornings
at the break of
Hello, everybody,” 's what
I'd lke to
Meeting with a greeting friendly
in ita style
Everybody, everywhere,
care to have a amie;
And for the beginning there's n«
better time
this very moming when |
write my rhyme,
So. whoe'er you may be-l don't
really care—
Hello, everybody!
where!
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day
Wiss
rs
ray,
who'd
Than
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jut what can we do?" she asked,
“March is such a blustering creature
he quite frightens me.”
“But you must help me,” sald April.
“We will tell him how wicked old
February is and that he only wants
him to come out roaring and cross so
he can keep the earth covered with
snow longer,
March was working fast to get ready
“Oh, } let a fellow
can't you?” began crossly.
April began to cry, the tears streaming
down lier pretty cheeks
March turned to say
Kay,
alone, he
something very
May's smile
you two
ngain but
stopped,
caught
and do
ie old Feb-
“He is
Please don't go out with
brother,” April begged.
for us by driving old February home.
He does pot want you to break the icy
coverings of the ponds or make the
earth soft for us.”
“Please, brother, don’t make us stay
pleadéd May with
smile ‘I he
the loveliest flowers you ever gaw this
year, but if you go to frolicking with
ve some of
and 1 shall
: .
I am afrald sOme
tints will quite
done
that
Oat
her work
to do
prettiest be
my
May smiled again at her brother
and April's eyes filled again with tears
“Oh, 1 Al don’t
because
but I'l
cry again,
» for me
ont
ie is up
Off came his heavy coat and out he
February, chuckling
turned ond fled when
. and 1
vent and old
himself outslde
he saw March
Over the field
Marcel chased him,
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inne
JAY BIRDS
SUPERSTITION found in many
sections of the country but espe-
A
third day.
in hell
devil f
Of
common
bird disappears
that day
ins
On
where
every
on duty
to. tell the
The more
form of this superstition is, perhaps,
he is
he KOC
he Is
him
carrying
to
on that day
sticks to the devil for
fire with
This superstition is a
from Norse mythology and Ger.
day
0
as
direct
ly the same
tation of had luck.
superstition more
as 8 bringer
the jay-bird
follows the
myth than the
superstition itself,
In the days of Odin and Thor the
ancient
magpie
does modern magpie
night,
themselves
on when
into
Walpurgis
transformed
WOMAN would rather have you
assure her that her eyes were
than tell her of the
discovery of seven new planets
Alas, when did a bald spot, or a
lean purse, or a tendency to embon-
point ever deter any man from seek-
No matter how a wife may long to
how, it always gives her a cold shock
rn bright, new, pink polish on his fin-
ger nalts,
——
A man who can remark In an ab-
stract way that he “loves the beaut)
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ful” and
f woman's
fanificance
at the same time gaze into
eyes with such
that It gives
concrete
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Charming Mary Aiden, the “movie”
star, refuses to divulge the secret of
her birthplace, claiming she is a citi
zen of the world and a servant of the
She was educated in Mon.
treal. Los Angeles and New York
claim her. Miss Alden has green-blue
eyes, black hair and a fair complex.
ion. She has been seen in some of
the most prominent productions.
the ice
went, and
breaking up
a8 he
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law of pature,
offer gifts” —and beware of a woman
when she ceases arguing
smiling at a man's deflections,
A bachelor’s feeling toward a mar
ried man is something like that of the
homeless stray, who gazes with min-
gled scorn, pity, amusement and envy
at the pampered, overfed pet Pom
straining at his leash,
Sudden shock has been known to
turn a woman's hair white In a night
«but then, sudden determination will
always turn it dark, again, in a day.
Isn't nature wonderful?
A woman's pity for a discarded
lover may be akin to love; but a
man's pity for the woman he has just
escaped Is a blood relative to ennui.
Bachelors are like barges without
tugs; they may carry a lot of weight,
but they never get anywhere.
Man proposes-—bum not unt!l woman
haps got him so blindfolded and tan-
Bled up that he can't see any other
way out, .
(Copyright by Helen Rowland)
mmm Prossssmntn
To Make Drop Biscuits
Drop biscuits are made just as oth.
er baking powder biscuits are except
that more liquor is used. The bis
cults should be of such consistency
that they may be ‘dropped from the
spoon upon a bal or tin but
not thin enough te cause them to
spread,
Folks said that
was like a lamb, he
they did not know that it was
of his sister April's tears and his
ter May
by MeClure
wus
because
s smile that he was so gentle
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Hnnnpumane
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magpies and flew away to Blakulle to
consult the devil
At first It would appear strange
find the jay bird—the most noticeable
specimen of which in this country is
the Jay—inheriting a magpie
myth. But ornithologists tell us that
the magple and the jay are very clos
iy related and that blue
of Europe is a connecting
tween them. In facet,
io
blue
the magpie
link
well
ig
ne as
other. Therefore,
the bad habit of the magpie tn mak
ing periodical visits to the devil
Blakulle it is not surprising that the
jay bird should
similar practice.
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when we consider
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be
suspected of a
df Pron
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“What'sinaName?”
By MILDRED MARSHALL
RP
Facts about your name: its history;
meaning: whence it was derived; sig.
nificance; your lucky day, lucky jewel
SOLLLLLLSS
LORETTA
ORETTA should, by right of
origin, be spelled Laurefta. Its
accepted form is due to the
influence which destroys the
“au” and supplies the letter
equivalent to its pronunciation.
Loretta signifies “laurel,” but there
considerable difference of opinion
to her source... Some oty
mologists believe that it is taken from
L
Italian
so called should consider St. Laurence
Others contend that
meaning avenue, and applied to the
clusters of hermitages which eventual
ly formed the nucleus of monasteries
A religious interpretation is that the
name Lauretta was evolved to com.
memorate the laurel grove, or loreto,
to which the Italians believe the
angels transported the holy house of
Nazareth during the conquest of Pal
estine,
But whatever theory is correct, Lau-
refta made her debut as a feminine
natne among the Flemish in 1162. Her
next appearance wag in the time of
King John, when a daughter of Wii
lam. de Braose, lord of Bramber, was
so called. After that, the name be
came popular In usage throughout
England and France. In the latter
country, it is called Laurette.
The emerald Is Loretta’s tallsmanic
gem. It ig the jewel of youth and
springtime for Loretta, and will bring
her the charm that comes from quick.
ened jutelligence, and the admirgtion
of “Others. Wednesday fs her Incky
day and 8 her lucky number.
(® by Wheater ¥vndiente. Ine )
Use for a Slide Rule
A slide rule Is an Instrument com.
posed of various scales the positions
of which In relation te each sther may
be altered. It is used for the rapid
performance of certain arithrdetionl
operations. The scales may Ye on.
graved on straight rods, disks, dr on
the surface of a cylinder.